Curriculum

Viewed as a listing ofsubjects to be taught inschool.

It refers to the totallearning experiences ofindividuals not only inschools but in a society aswell.

oTraditional

Points of

View of

Curriculum

Traditional Points of View

of Curriculum

"curriculum is that it is a

body of subjects or

subject matter prepared

by the teachers for the

students to learn.“

" It was synonymous to

the "course of study" and

"syllabus".

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Views curriculum as "permanent studies"

where the rules of grammar, rhetoric and

logic and mathematics for basic education

are emphasized.

Basic education should emphasize 3 Rs and

college education should be grounded on

liberal education.

(January 17, 1899 – May 17, 1977)

Arthur Bestor

Essentialist

He believes that the

mission of the school

should be intellectual

training.

(September 20, 1908 – December 13, 1994)

discipline is the sole

source of curriculum.

Thus, in our education

system, curriculum is

divided into chunks of

knowledge we call

subject areas in basic

education such as

English, Mathematics,

Science, Social Studies

and others

Joseph Schwab(1909–1988)

Thus curriculum can be

viewed as a field of study.

It is made up of its

foundations (philosophical,

historical, psychological, and

social foundations); domains of

knowledge as well as its

research theories and

principles.

Curriculum is taken as

scholarly and theoretical.

Progressive Points of View of Curriculum

To a progressivist, a

listing of school

subjects, syllabi, course

of study, and list of

courses of specific

discipline do not make a

curriculum.

John Dewey

He believed that reflective

thinking is a means that

unifies curricular

elements. Thought is not

derived from action but

tested by application.

October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952

Caswell and Campbell

curriculum as "all

experiences children have

under the guidance of

teachers.“

Stanley and shores when

they defined "curriculum as a

sequence of potential

experiences set up in schools

for the purpose of disciplining

children and youth in group

ways of thinking and acting."

Marsh and Willis

curriculum as all the"experiences in theclassroom which areplanned and enactedby teacher, and alsolearned by thestudents.

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